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Table 1 Effects of sub-watersheds, landscape positions, and land use on plant biomass production and biomass export

From: Sustainable land management interventions lead to carbon sequestration in plant biomass and soil in a mixed crop-livestock system: the case of Geda watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia

 

N

Plant biomass (Mg ha-1)

Exported plant biomass (Mg ha−1)

Main season

Dry season

Sub-watershed (SW)

 Untreated

40

5.91b

0.33b

5.58a

 Treated

50

10.63a

7.62a

3.01b

Landscape position (LP)

  

Untreated upper

20

5.38b

0.33c

5.05a

  Lower

20

6.44b

0.31c

6.12a

Treated upper

20

5.77b

2.21b

3.56b

  Lower

30

10.97a

7.36a

3.61b

Land-use types (LU)

Untreated crop

20

6.92b

0.41c

6.51a

  Grazing

20

4.90c

0.24c

4.66b

Treated crop

20

8.09b

1.95b

6.14ab

  Grazing

20

4.49c

1.69b

2.80c

  Tree lucerne

10

19.31a

19.23a

0.08d

P-SW

 

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P-SW*LP

 

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ns

P-SW*LU

 

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  1. Means within columns under each topic followed by different letters are significantly different from each other at P ≤ 0.05; ***significant at P ≤ 0.001; ns non-significant